| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Workspace | The top-level container: one dbt™ project, its connections, and its team. See how Paradime works. |
| Environment | A named set of warehouse credentials and targets. Development and scheduler environments keep dev and prod apart. See environments and connections. |
| Connection | The warehouse credentials and settings inside an environment; what dbt™ reads as its profile. |
| dbt™ project | Your version-controlled folder of models, sources, tests, and configuration. See what is dbt™. |
| Model | A SQL file that builds a table or view in your warehouse. |
| Source | A declaration of a raw warehouse table your project reads from. |
| Materialization | How a model is built: table, view, incremental, or ephemeral. See model materializations. |
| Code IDE (Editor) | The in-browser development environment for your dbt™ project. See Code IDE. |
| DinoAI | Paradime’s AI layer: copilot, autonomous agents, and programmable agents. See what is DinoAI. |
| Copilot | DinoAI inside the editor, working with you interactively. |
| Agent | DinoAI working autonomously in the background on a task you delegate. |
| .dinorules | A file of project conventions that steers how DinoAI writes code. See .dinorules. |
| Bolt | The orchestrator that runs your project in production. See what is Bolt. |
| Schedule | A Bolt job: commands, a trigger, and notification settings. |
| Run | One execution of a schedule, with its logs and artifacts. |
| Turbo CI | Bolt’s pull-request builds that only rebuild what changed. See CI/CD. |
| Defer to production | Running a model in development while reading its unchanged parents from production, to skip rebuilding everything. See defer to production. |
| Catalog | The searchable index of your documented data assets. See Catalog. |
| Lineage | The dependency graph from sources to models to dashboards. |
| Radar | Observability: warehouse cost, run health, and alerting. See Radar. |
| Data mesh | Multiple connected workspaces sharing models across projects. See data mesh setup. |
| Roles (Admin / Developer / Business) | The three access levels in a workspace; Business is read-only. See roles and permissions. |
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